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The annual relocations disrupt their children’s education and limit their chances of escaping low-wage work. California currently operates the centers — which house about 7,000 farmworkers and ...
First edition of pamphlet. The Harvest Gypsies, by John Steinbeck, is a series of feature-story articles written on commission for The San Francisco News about the lives and times of migrant workers in California's Central Valley. [1]
U.S. Department of Labor data shows about 92% of California farmworkers were settled in 2019-2020. Migrant farmworkers want to live in California. There’s just no affordable housing for them
The California agricultural strikes of 1933 were a series of strikes by mostly Mexican and Filipino agricultural workers throughout the San Joaquin Valley. More than 47,500 workers were involved in the wave of approximately 30 strikes from 1931 to 1941.
Carey McWilliams, Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California, first published in 1939 by Little, Brown and Company, New edition, University of California Press (February 21, 2000) ISBN 0520224132; Devra Weber, Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton, and the New Deal, 1996 ISBN 9780520207103
The annual relocations disrupt their children’s education and limit their chances of escaping low-wage work. California currently operates the centers — which house about 7,000 farmworkers and ...
California has 72,257 migrant students, who are eligible to participate in the federal Migrant Education Program, more than any other state in the country. ... Farm work shaped the lives of Perez ...
Arvin Federal Government Camp, also known as the Weedpatch Camp or Sunset Labor Camp, was built by the Farm Security Administration south of Bakersfield, California, in 1936 to house migrant workers during the Great Depression. The National Register of Historic Places placed several of its historic buildings on the registry on January 22, 1996.